Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, I Class Merit Cross with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Archive worn on ribbon with silver

worn on ribbon with silver hanger

Pitting on the reverse

wear to cross

Each constructed of black wool with twisted and rolled silver aluminum wire trimming

Germany, Third Reich. An Order of the German Eagle, I Class Merit Cross with Case, by Gebrüder Godet Archive worn on ribbon with silver(Deutscher Adlerorden Verdienstkreuz I. Klasse mit Schwertern und Etui). Instituted 1 May 1937. (1939 1943 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with enamels, consisting of a Maltese Cross with white enameled arms, each joined through the quadrants by a gilded NSDAP style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika on a white enameled disc, the obverse overlaid across the three and nine oclock arms with a pair of crossed swords, the